Youve Got Red On You 10 BehindTheScenes Facts About Shaun Of The Dead

You’ve Got Red On You: 10 Behind-The-Scenes Facts About Shaun Of The Dead

Simon Pegg and Nick Frost are icons in Shaun of the Dead, and we’ve got some behind the scenes facts you may not have known about the zombie homage…

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In 2004, Edgar Wright directed Simon Pegg and Nick Frost in Shaun of the Dead, an affectionate homage to, and fantastic example of, the zombie genre. With its hilarious performances, airtight script, and kinetic editing style, Shaun of the Dead immediately captured audiences and has since gone on to become one of the 21st century’s greatest cult classics.

Pegg and Frost share an unparalleled on-screen chemistry that can only happen when two actors are close friends in real life, while Wright’s unique visual style makes the film a sight to behold.

10 Edgar Wright believes that Cornettos are a good hangover cure

The morning after their night at the pub, a hungover Ed asks Shaun to buy him a Cornetto from the shop. This was included in the movie because Edgar Wright actually believes in its power as a hangover cure. He discovered this as a teenager when he ate a Cornetto while recovering from a night of drinking and it made him feel a lot better.

The Cornetto went on to define the movie, and a Cornetto would be subsequently featured in Hot Fuzz and The World’s End (with the flavor corresponding to the film’s genre) comprising the “Three Flavors Cornetto Trilogy,” three movies linked by a company of actors and an affection for genre cinema.

9 Simon Pegg and Nick Frost got the idea for Paul on the set of Shaun of the Dead

The set of Shaun of the Dead was so cold that Simon Pegg and Nick Frost would joke about shooting their next movie in the desert. This led them to come up with the idea for Paul, their science-fiction comedy about a pair of nerds who help an alien on the run from the U.S. government to get home.

Pegg and Frost wouldn’t end up making Paul until 2011, seven years after Shaun of the Dead hit theaters. The duo wrote the script and also starred in it, but Shaun of the Dead’s Edgar Wright didn’t direct; rather, Superbad’s Greg Mottola handled those duties.

8 The Winchester was based on a real pub

The Winchester was based on Simon Pegg’s own local pub, the Shepherds in Highgate. (Shaun mentions the Shepherds when Liz objects to going to the Winchester and he rattles off a list of alternative pubs.) The couple that run the Winchester, John and Bernie, are named after the landlord and landlady who run the Shepherds.

They used to make toasties for regulars, which explains the reference to “the Breville out back.” Pegg used to attend the Shepherds’ pub quiz with Nick Frost, which is why, when Shaun and the survivors arrive at the Winchester, he says, “We do the quiz!”

7 Ed’s missing chunk of hair was Nick Frost’s idea

One of the most curious unexplained running gags in Shaun of the Dead involves a chunk of Ed’s hair being shaved off. Ed’s missing chunk of hair is visible in any over-the-shoulder shot, or whenever he’s in profile, but it’s never explained. According to director Edgar Wright, “It was some drunken thing where [Ed and his friends] had been shaving bits of their hair off.”

This was actually Nick Frost’s own idea. According to Simon Pegg, “Nick just decided, before we shot the film, that Ed should have a chunk of hair missing…Nick is like that. He’ll just have a silly idea, and we’ll say, ‘Okay.’”

6 The news reports feature some big-name voice cameos

Throughout Shaun of the Dead, we’re treated to a few fictional news reports, either foreshadowing the zombie apocalypse or showing society’s response to it. These reports are delivered by some pretty big names in cameo appearances.

David Walliams (who initially auditioned to play David) can be heard on a TV news broadcast, while The League of Gentlemen’s Mark Gatiss can be heard on the radio. Rob Brydon announces the “Zombies from Hell” TV special, while Keith Chegwin hosts the “Fun Dead” show. The final newscaster, who dismisses the rumors that infected monkeys caused the zombie apocalypse, is director Edgar Wright.

5 Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg found that writing a movie is very different than writing a TV show

When they sat down to write Shaun of the Dead, Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg had never really written a movie script before. They’d written for the screen, as they scripted episodes of their Channel 4 sitcom Spaced through its two seasons, but they found that writing a movie is very different than writing a TV show.

Having initially assumed that writing a 90-minute movie wouldn’t be too different than writing three 30-minute TV installments, according to Pegg, “We basically discovered that we weren’t going to write three consecutive sitcom episodes – we had to write a different kind of animal.”

4 The soundtrack borrowed a few cues from Dawn of the Dead

Shaun of the Dead borrowed more than just its title (well, more or less its title) from Dawn of the Dead. There are also a couple of memorable cues from the musical score for Dawn of the Dead – which was composed by horror legend Dario Argento and Goblin (a band erroneously credited as “the Goblins” in the film) – included on Shaun of the Dead’s soundtrack.

The most notable examples are the track that plays over the Universal Pictures logo at the beginning of the movie, and the track that plays over each montage as Shaun runs through various plans for surviving the apocalypse.

3 A vampire-infested sequel was considered

At one point, Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg were considering the possibility of a sequel to Shaun of the Dead that replaced zombies with a different monster: vampires. However, they decided against it, because they felt that the movie worked better as a standalone piece and also thought that too many characters died in the first one for a sequel to work.

The title they conceived for the proposed sequel was From Dusk Till Shaun, a nod to the vampire movie From Dusk Till Dawn, starring George Clooney and Quentin Tarantino. Pegg has later dismissed any discussions of a sequel as pub talk; nothing serious.

2 The movie is filled with Easter eggs for horror buffs

Edgar Wright filled Shaun of the Dead with Easter eggs to wink at horror movie buffs. When Shaun leaves the convenience store, a pizza place called Bub’s Pizza can be spotted, a reference to the zombie of that name from Day of the Dead. When Shaun flicks through the Yellow Pages, there’s a number for an Italian restaurant called Fulci’s, a nod to Italian horror filmmaker Lucio Fulci.

And the supermarket where Mary, the zombie that wanders into Shaun and Ed’s backyard, works is called Landis, a reference to John Landis, the director of An American Werewolf in London (a huge influence on Wright’s work).

1 Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg got the idea from an episode of Spaced

Before working on Shaun of the Dead, Edgar Wright, Simon Pegg, and Nick Frost all collaborated on the Channel 4 sitcom Spaced. The idea for the movie, that Pegg and Wright would eventually develop into a script, came from a concept in Spaced.

In the third episode of the show’s first season, “Art,” Tim (Pegg) has been taking drugs and playing Resident Evil 2 for so long that he begins to hallucinate an actual zombie uprising. After filming this episode, as Pegg and Wright realized they had a shared affinity for the zombie genre, Wright pitched a feature-length zombie comedy.

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